Fellows

Learn Capital’s Fellows program engages talented professionals in an immersive tour of duty of education technology and venture capital.

Pre-2015

2015

2016

2017

Jialu ChenAnalyst

Jesse ChiangFellow

Ryan CorleyUndergraduate Fellow

John GerlachUndergraduate Fellow

Jacob SamuelsonSenior Fellow

Alexandra SukinUndergraduate Fellow

Guilherme Nazareth de SouzaUndergraduate Fellow

Elaine DangMBA Fellow

Brook BisratSenior Fellow

Kyle SchillerUndergraduate Fellow

Vinit SukhijaSenior Fellow

Megan PierceUndergraduate Fellow

Marissa LowmanSenior Fellow

Sharon LiMBA Fellow

James LeoSenior Fellow

Erica CrouserUndergraduate Fellow

Jingwen TaoSenior Fellow

Connie LiuFellow

Urmila JanardanUndergraduate Fellow

Louise BaldwinMBA Fellow

Rob Hutter

/ Managing Partner

Rob Hutter is the Founder & Managing Partner at Learn Capital. He oversees the investing
practice of the firm, which spans seed, early stage and emerging growth companies dedicated
to the transformation of learning and the improvement of individual and societal capacities at
scale. He currently serves on the board or as board observer for a number of Learn Capital companies
including Coursera, Photomath, Smashcut, Brilliant, Andela, and several other breakthrough
firms. He is also Chairman of the VIPKID Education Research Institute. In addition to his work with
edtech companies, he is a participant in two academic neuroscience organizations.

Previously, Rob was a Partner at Revolution Ventures, an early stage venture investment
firm and affiliate of Founders Fund. He was additionally co-founder and president of Swarm Networks, a
massively scalable storage company purchased by Intel. He was also involved in the founding
stages of transportation intelligence leader SmartDrive Systems and the chipmaker Silicon
Spice, which was purchased by Broadcom. In addition, he co-founded two companies in online
games and also co-founded Edusoft, a K-12 assessment management platform purchased
by Houghton-Mifflin in 2003. He is a graduate of Harvard University.

Greg Mauro

/ Managing Partner

Greg Mauro is the Founder and Managing Partner at Learn Capital, having previously managed an affiliate of Founders Fund. He served on the inaugural foundation board for High Tech High for eight years, and during that tenure launched a U.S. Treasury-backed New Markets fund focused on education facilities for high performing high schools. He has also co-founded four venture-backed startups used by millions across the education, wireless, and media sectors, including Edmodo, which is used by over 80 million teachers and students worldwide.

Greg is the co-founder of Nextivity, SmartDrive, and Tachyon, which have collectively received $350M in venture capital. Prior to these ventures, he joined four engineers to launch Entropic, which created the MoCA home networking standard before going public. He started his career as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group and is a graduate of UCLA’s College of Honors. An avid skier and surfer, Greg has visited over 100 countries. He is the Chairman and co-owner of Powder Mountain, the largest ski area in the United States, and is also Chairman of the Summit Institute.

Michael Staton

/ Partner

Michael Staton is a Partner at Learn Capital, where he has helped lead investments into Coursera, Minerva, and Brilliant. He previously founded and was CEO of Uversity, the pioneer of social enrollment management technology in higher education. For Uversity, he secured the first venture investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s U.S. programs into a private company.

Because of his years as a public school teacher and intuitive understanding of K-12 education, Michael served as a Venture Partner and Community Advisor to NewSchools Venture Fund’s Seed Fund, now Reach Capital. Outside of investing, he has held early roles at, befriended, and advised many education technology companies, including Dev Bootcamp and Goalbook. He was declared a top 100 innovator by the Chronicle of Higher Education, and he currently serves on the advisory board of SxSWedu and the Higher Education Working Group of the American Enterprise Institute.

Jennifer Lee

/ Principal

Jennifer Lee is a Principal at Learn Capital. She previously worked with for-profit impact investment funds in both domestic and emerging markets. She was an independent consultant for ImpactAssets, where she helped establish a platform for their donor-advised funds to invest in seed stage enterprises.

Jennifer’s additional experience includes serving as a Vice President and Relationship Manager for the Asia and Middle East (AME) region at Developing World Markets, an asset manager and investment bank dedicated to investing in inclusive financial institutions in emerging markets. At DWM, she led investments into 17 countries, helped conceive and execute the firm’s investment strategy for the AME region, conducted due diligence, and managed post-investment relationships. She started her career at Lehman Brothers as a strategist for the US Treasury, Treasury Futures, and Swaps markets and earned her BS in Chemistry and Management from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Luis Pinto

/ Global Operations Partner

Luis Pinto is a Global Operations Partner at Learn Capital. He previously led internationalization efforts at Intel’s largest worldwide partner for K-12 Classmate PC Solutions (JP-IK’s Magellan). In five years the initiative reached more than 70 governments, generated business in 30 active countries, created a new channel partner network with 200+ members, impacted 10M+ students, and managed $300M+ yearly revenues. He was instrumental in driving sales and managing government relationships in the regional contexts of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Luis was previously a founder of a sustainable development management consulting firm, Sustinova. He also worked for nine years at Microsoft, where he was Director of OEM Sales and a Member of the Board for Microsoft Portugal. Luis holds an MsC from Cranfield University, is fluent in four languages, and has traveled to more than 60 countries.

Vinit Sukhija

/ Associate

Vinit Sukhija is an Associate at Learn Capital. He previously led Teach For America’s Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initiative, where he supported and invested in over 200 early-stage education entrepreneurs, launched Teach For America’s first social entrepreneurship conference in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and was named to Forbes’ 2015 30 Under 30 in Education.

Vinit boasts a diverse range of experiences at the intersection of education, technology, and entrepreneurship, including serving as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon, an Investments Fellow at The Chicago Public Education Fund, a strategy consultant for the Charter School Growth Fund, a judge and coach for numerous Startup Weekend EDU events and business plan competitions, an advisory board member for two education non-profits, and a high school mathematics teacher in the South Central and South Gate communities of Los Angeles. He graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley and earned his MBA from MIT Sloan.

Brook Bisrat

/ Director of Impact Operations

Brook Bisrat is a Director of Impact Operations at Learn Capital. He previously worked as a Macro and Commodities Derivatives Assistant at Infinium Capital Management. During his tenure, he helped found the Macro Team, taught new and established traders technical analysis, and managed portfolios comprised of energy, grain, and soft commodities. Also during his tenure, Infinium had its largest trading revenues in history, producing $200M in profit in 2008.

Brook also spent time as a Macro Futures Trader and Global Derivatives Technical Analyst at Yellowstone Capital Management and Raven Traders. While there, he established Macro Groups for both organizations and worked closely with multiple portfolio managers, focusing mainly on forecasting models for emerging trends and hedging strategies for internal portfolios. Most recently, he worked on the Sales Operations team at Oscar Health Insurance and Kindred.

Paul Strange

/ COO & General Counsel

Paul Strange is the COO & General Counsel at Learn Capital. He previously served as the General Counsel for Gazillion Entertainment, a developer of massively multiplayer online videogames, where he was responsible for all legal matters of the company including financing, domestic regulatory and privacy compliance, international regulatory compliance, inbound and outbound licensing, and contract compliance.

Prior to joining Gazillion, Paul founded and operated The Strange Law Firm, which provided a broad range of services to clients including AT&T and Greyhound. He started his professional career with the preeminent trial lawyers of Thorsnes, Bartolotta and McGuire in San Diego. He has also served as a board member and President of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District – one of the largest school districts in California with 56+ school sites, a budget of approximately $285M, and 30K+ K-12 students.